Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
THE NEWS.
items 1T Interest From an Parts Gf
the World.
FAR EAST.

-Advices from Zanzibar say the Portuguese
have captured the fortress commanding the
bay of Tungi The Insurgents are footing
stores, but it is not thought there is any dan
ger to life or property on the Island of Moz-
antique. ABritish cruiser has arrived at the
capital to protect English subjects and inter
este. The Sultan of Zanzibar asks the media
ton Of England or Germany to bring about
peace between; Zanzibar and Portugal
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has
secured the Cunard Steamships Batavia,
Parthia, and Abyssinnia to run monthly be-
tween Vancouver and Hong Kong, commenc-
ing May /.
During the first week of March the railroads
of New Brunswick experienced the worst snow
blockades known for ten years. Miles and
miles of the New Brunswick Railway were
buried from seven to ten feet
The bill for the redemption of trade dol
lars and the anti Polyamy bill became laws
without the Presidents signature by reason OF
the expiration of the constitutional limitation
of ten days within which he should have re-
turned the bills to congress in case of disap-
prevail Both bills we've carefully considered
by the President, and while they contained
some provisions to which he preferred not to
commit himself, he was unwilling to defeat
the object of the measures by a veto.
"A a military conference at Vienna. pre-
sided over by the Emperor, it was decided to
appoint several officers for superior commands
in the event of war. The Grown Prince will
command one army corps. The erection of
wooden huts for troops in Galica is proceed
ing rapidly. Forts are being armed, ammu-
milton and provisions being stored and con-
struction of strategic railway lines being
fastened, there being 40 men now at work.
"A Vienna dispatch, of the Sd, says that all
the garrisons throughout Austria have begun
practicing Will reporters. All the troops in
Vienna have been supplied with new rifles.
Officers throughout the monarchy have been
ordered to be ready to march at any time
within twenty-four hours. The Sunday OBJ
servance act has been suspended to allow
work on army contracts to be hurried.
Tho total debt of the United States, after
deducting the cash available, is sl,35y, 49,
600. The decrease for February was only
81, 436, 7Sas
A sensation has been caused at Paris by
the publication in the Temps of a dispatch
from Cairo stating that all the French officials
in the Khedive's service have been dismissed.
Gen. Boulanger has decreed that in the
future no officer in the army shall be allowed
to have in his service any foreigner of either
sex. The decree comes from the fact that the
governess of Gen. Daroust's Children has been
discovered to be the wife of a Prnssian officer
quartered at Neuf Brisack.
"A Halifax, n. S., special says: The pub
LEGATION of the address of the New Foundland
Legislature to the Imperial Government has
produced q sensation. If it is not a declara-
ton of independence it is the next thing to it.
The New Foundlanders tell the Imperial Gov
eminent thatthey own their fisheries and they
do not propose to pay the slightest heed to
French or American interests, or to brook any
interference from the Imperial Government
The situation is 80 serious that both Premier
Thorburn and Shea, leaders of the opposition,
have gone to England to represent the danger
ous character of the prevailing feeling in New
Foundland Anything would be better than
the present state of affairs, and if annexation
wore submitted to a popular vote it would be
carried by three-fourths majority.